{"id":26307,"date":"2016-06-24T01:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-to-withdraw-troops-from-somalia-s-amisom\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T01:28:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T01:28:21","slug":"uganda-to-withdraw-troops-from-somalia-s-amisom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-to-withdraw-troops-from-somalia-s-amisom\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda to withdraw troops from Somalia&#8217;s Amisom force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Uganda provides the biggest contingent of soldiers to the AU force, Amisom.}<\/p>\n<p>Uganda will pull its soldiers out of the African Union mission fighting Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, its military chief has said.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Katumba Wamala said the decision to withdraw Ugandan troops by December 2017 was taken because of frustration with the Somali army and military advisers from US, UK and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda provides the biggest contingent of soldiers to the AU force, Amisom.<br \/>\nAmisom has helped push Al-Shabaab out of most of Somalia&#8217;s major towns.<br \/>\nBut the militants continue to mount deadly suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12993 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/841940-01-02-2.jpg\" alt=\"Somali federal government forces patrol a street in Mogadishu on February 18, 2015. Uganda will pull its soldiers out of the African Union mission fighting Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, its military chief has said \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Uganda provides the biggest contingent of soldiers to the AU force, Amisom.} Uganda will pull its soldiers out of the African Union mission fighting Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, its military chief has said. Gen Katumba Wamala said the decision to withdraw Ugandan troops by December 2017 was taken because of frustration with the Somali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}